Notes DB 94: Theory of Peace
Sunday 22 March 2026 - Saturday 28 March 2026
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Sunday 22 March 2026
How do we concert an unbridled lust for power into a peaceful society? Where does the unbridled lust for power come from in the first place? We have a political model, the rise and a fall of empires and a scientific model, evolution and the creation of the world. Both revolve around “god”, the implementation of unbridled power in an eternal omnipotent creator.
How did this work out in my life. I was born a lustful creature and taught that my lust was a sin that would keep my out of heaven [a well established theological delusion]. Instead of transforming my lust into love and the creation of children, I was directed into becoming a servant of god by following the ‘counsels of perfection’: taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, renouncing my ownership of property, the power of reproduction and my own freedom and agency in the service of a ‘higher’ power. Evangelical counsels - Wikipedia
I could not conform and was rejected, beginning my lifelong search, reflected in this long series of diaries, an unconventional life, a book rejecting the ideology that led me into the service of the imperial Roman Catholic Church, and the present moment. [Here I am] seeking a second reading of the lessons contained in our scientific knowledge of the evolution of the world, a process that has taken 14 billion years to create me and my forest of concerns, highlighted once again by the political system that sees another empire destroying itself in a pointless war. Jeffrey Nicholls (2025): Cognitive Cosmogenesis: A systematic unification of physics and theology, Jason Reifler (2026_03_25): Iran war lacks strategy, goals, legitimacy and support – in the US and around the world
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I can now say that I have settled on a hypothesis that solves my problems in principle and am now seeking to sell the book and put my solution into action and have [considered] a legal approach, creating a case that the Catholic Church deprived my of my human right by teaching me false doctrine, that is by requiring me to hold certain opinions that were inconsistent with the world as we know it. My case is a matter of justice.
Foster page 21: Australian case: Latham CJ: What is religion to one is superstition to another. Associate Professor Neil Foster (2020): Respecting the Dignity of Religious Organisations: When is it appropriate for Courts to decide Religious Doctrine?
page 23: Australian cases deciding theological questions: Are beliefs about sexuality parts of Christian Doctrine? Does the Bible say so?
page 31: Uhlman v Live Group
Foster page 44: ‘This paper has considered the extent to which courts should be involved in making decisions about religious doctrines. . . . there are some broad areas where the community has to determine that religious right cannot override other fundamental rights'. Now back to the Theory of Peace essay [see end of notes March 15].
The foundation of the case against the Church begins with its claims on the ownership of God and leads to lies about original sin: Catechism §§2475 sqq. Catholic Catechism: §2475 sqq.: III. Offenses Against Truth
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One nation as a party of grievance and disruption? It is an idea for me. No, I am a good news prophet, salvation in a truly divine universe by straightforward science.
Monday 23 March 2026
Phone: We imagine that Hilbert space can break the symmetry of the initial singularity by analogy to the way Augustine developed the Trinity in the singular god Yahweh, placing no limit on th number of persons. Insert to Theory of Peace. Mary Sirridge (1999): Quam videndo intus dicimus: Seeing and Saying in De Trinitate XV
Print 5 copies of ToP, 6pp.
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Caught up with the diary at last and impressed by the web statistics of Scientific-theology.com, the four leaf clover rainbow 
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Now back to Justice [L4L_e02_Justice_Mar2026], the sharing of work and reward beginning from the classical definition of energy, the ability to do work, ie E = F.s [F = force, s = distance], and going to the QED approach which is that action is the time integral of energy and energy (matter) is what makes forms real. We structure this article on the standard approach: classical = kinetic = observable; quantum is invisible but explains what we observe in terms of phase, waves, superposition and passage from complex to real numbers.
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My monastic experience was cut down because my brilliant idea [of Divinity] was heresy, expressed in the question How Universal is the Universe first phrased in the language of information and communication which has brought me, over 60 years to the notion, mediated by mathematics and quantum mechanics, that the physical universe is the new Bible. As Monty Python said, It is written, that's why, and Hammurabi had the idea of making the writing real and concrete by carving it in stone. Jeffrey Nicholls (1967): How universal is the universe?
My 60yo brilliant idea has finally made it into a book backed by a gigabyte of websites that probably contain abut 100 MB of unique text at say 10B per word, ie 10m million words, a resource that I must conserve for the rest of my life and hopefully arrange for its permanent funding [an idea: duplicate these notes as “Sources” in scientific-theology.com and cognitivecosmogenesis.com]
Wilderness is self sustaining and the most peaceful state of maximum entropy.
Best option: go to Rome and lobby the Papacy [??].
It took physicists a long time to convince themselves that atoms are real but the discovery of the nucleus set the process on its way. What the theologians need to accept is that the initial singularity / symmetry (call it god if you wish) is real and must logically be eternal. A further consequence of this is that the quantum of action is real [an image of the singularity] and is the basis of all Hilbert spaces, and fulfils Aquinas’s claim that god acts at every point in the universe. Aquinas, Summa I, 22, 2: Does everything come under divine providence?
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The fundamental weakness of empire is the internal tension caused by injustice which arises from the suppression of the freedom and agency of the people living in the empire, or at least the majority subject to the will of the emperor or imperial power maintained by violence which if severe enough leads to civil war within the imperium.
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Justice - John Rawls A Theory of Justice John Rawls - Wikipedia, A Theory of Justice - Wikipedia
Looking back on my life I see that my indoctrination by the Church totally distorted my relationship with women. The most embarrassing event occurred when some of my friends organized for me to meet a young woman who was to be my partner at the [Blackfriars] prefects’ ball. I did not go to the meeting, perhaps out of fear and embarrassment and went to the ball alone, which was also fearful snd embarrassing and somehow deeply connected to my choice to enter the Order, perhaps also containing an element of fear of women. Subsequently my relationships to the mothers of my children have also been very poor, although I tried. It is only now that my rejection of Catholic doctrine is meticulously documented that I begin to experience the pain that it caused me, in a way completely derailing me from the life I could have had as a well educated, intelligent and socially literate child. One hopes for some significant payoff for all this religious difficulty
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akin to the psychological trauma suffered by children who have been sexually abused by the priesthood, although I never really identified with this, but one can say that I did receive the intellectual abuse that was [and is] standard business as usual in the Church. The principal personal role of my theory of peace is to bring peace in my own life. One would hope that this emotional pressure will eventually pay off in the insights that I suspect lie on the periphery of my vision.
Cognitive Cosmogenesis bridges the gnostic gap notes 25M12D14 line 654.
Dirac 2/2/1928 paper on relativistic quantum theory of Zeeman effect. P. A. M. Dirac (1928_02_02): The Quantum Theory of the elecron Part II
Let us say that quantum mechanics separates kinetic energy from potential energy, where we think of kinetic energy in massive fermions and potential energy in massless photons, One expects, however, to find a lot more energy in a fermion than a photon, which is a worry [but may be the case in the expanding universe, where many photons are “cooled” by climbing out of gravitational potential well].
Given that the initial singularity / symmetry is a quantum of action [Aquinas’s actus purus] and energy is the frequency of actions, ie the number of actions per unit time, we are inclined to think of a quantum of action as eternal, [in effect] containing “cancelling” times going in opposite directions, so we see kinetic energy as “positive going” time and potential energy as “negative going” time. [quantum mechanics realizes time and anti-time in the creation of massive and massless particles; masslessness corresponds to the speed of light which is an ingredient in the Minkowski metric, ie in pure quantum mechanics there is no space and time and everything moves the speed of light. This suggests that stationary massivity is in some way the source of space, couple to spin ½; there is mystery here which might reveal something eventually].
Pais page 234. For atom x, mx = Zmp + (A - Z)mn - B/c2 where B is binding energy, potential energy to put in to take nucleus apart (launching an astronaut) somehow navigating negative flowing time. Sleep on it.
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Zero energy = formal = immaterial, initial singularity [which we consider, nevertheless, to be real like the quantum of action]. Complex time, time and space, matter and form, a little patch of difficulty which underlies Minkowski space, fermions and bosons [no wonder QFT people assume Minkowski space is given by the creator]. Is there an answer to this dilemma, as there was an answer for the Bohr atom, although this looked grim for a long time? Here we have a rerun of Aristotle’s hylomorphism problem flavoured with the gnostic gap.
Wednesday 25 March 2026
My monastic dream was to rewrite Aquinas’s Summa using modern science in place of Ancient Aristotle. This plan was cut short by the residual influence in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ancient Hebrew divinity Yahweh who would kill rather than be replaced by a new god. Even the universe was not acceptable, so his Church expelled me.
My book Cognitive Cosmogenesis replaces the Cosmological treatment of divinity in the Prima Pars and I am now beginning work on II I, II II, and III, the human place in the world, moral theology and politics and salvation to be mapped out in a website Lust-4-Life. Since humanity is so much part of the biological and physical wold and we have done away with angels, devils and original sin, this task is greatly simplified and strenthened by the fact that quantum mechanics is a comprehensive theory of everything which produces a framework for human and all other life.
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Trump and Papacy are both deeply embedded in the post truth world. Alex Lo (2026_03_24): Donald Trump is the purest symbol of post-truth America
Massless particles like photons are superposable and therefore similar to vectors in Hilbert space, outside space and time, only identifiable by their source and destination.
What do scientists do when their research is going nowhere? At least most of them have a parallel teaching job and are aware of the evolutionary fact that not all trials lead to a positive outcome. I do not explicitly teach and whatever I am looking for is still not in hand, but while I am alive my only option is to keep searching. I am saddened [for him] by Einstein’s failure to find a deterministic theory of everything, but I feel that my writing of the music of the spheres in quantum mechanics and a plausible story of the creation of the world is yielding at least enough fruit to keep me going on happily. The best product I have to offer is that the world is ok, divinely perfect if only we lean to trust it and ourselves, right — the Theory of Peace.
The glory of god shines through the universe at all scales from the quantum of action to supernovas, galaxies and massive black holes, each operating with quantum precision that we pick up with out most powerful microscopes like the Large Hadron Collider to our most powerful telescopes whose primary mirrors are slowly growing to tens of metres and planet sized assemblies of radio telescopes. ELT Home: The Extremely Large Telescope; Home, LIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
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Pais 251: 6 revolutionary theoretical papers: Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Bose, Heisenberg and Schrödinger: ‘If these papers have one thing in common it is that they contain at least one theoretical step that could not be justified st the time of writing.’
My unjustified theoretical steps:
1. Equate singularity to Aristotle, Averroes, Augustine, Aquinas, Planck action model of god.
2. Putting Hilbert space in the initial singularity by Augustine and fixed point theory, introducing non-causality and chance.
3. Automatically introducing quantum mechanics by the superposition of complex vectors, getting real results by hermitian operations.
4. Zero sum complexification of gravitation to introduce kinetic and potential energy which realized qubits of orthogonal bosons and fermions,
5. The construction of inertial and Minkowski space through the intersection of fermions and bosons.
6. Introducing political freedom and agency at all scales via symmetry with respect to complexity in Hilbert space. <./p>
7. Introducing the politics of justice by exact equivalence of kinetic and potential energy created by bifurcation, and the conservation of energy.
[8. Solution to the measurement problem by recognizing the interactions between particles are not just one off collisions but conversations, where the whole spectrum of interactions constitutes a unitary conversation between particles which thought the Born rules meets the criterion of information transmission implicit in Shannon’s communication theory. Wojciech Hubert Zurek (2008): Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical]
Heisenberg: ‘The present paper seeks to establish a basis for theoretical quantum mechanics founded exclusively upon relationships between quantities which in principle are observable.' And here lies the problem because only a very abstract picture of quantum mechanics is carried across from the complex world to the real world by hermitian operators that hide the complexity of complex numbers. The ‘spiritual’ complex grace is hidden.
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Pais, 256: Born: ‘It is necessary to drop completely the physical pictures of Schrödinger which aim at representation of the classical continuum theory to retain only the formalism and fill it with new physical content’. [Which is where QFT fails by immediately reintroducing the continuum Minkowski space and treating it as real and operational rather than as just the screen created by quantum particles on which the quantum images are projected.]
Thursday 26 March 2026
Badlani paid 10k, anaesthetist 2,2k; Badlani returns 5k, no implants [then Friday operation moved to April 24].
L4L_e02_Mar2026: The role of justice as a theory of peace; the fundamental source of war is the failure of justice. Putin: The USSR an imperial power destroyed by its own internal failure [of justice] which he wants to make great again, MAGA, MRGA. [Justice is embedded in the population: Jean Decety and Keith J. Yoder (2016_11_16): The Emerging Social Neuroscience of Justice Motivation
There is a tension between kinetic energy and potential energy which is some way established by quantum mechanics which begins with randomness like evolution and every now and then events ratchet into stability by reproduction, the simplest of which is a harmonic oscillator, a vibrating nothing like a pendulum where the boson and the fermion are identical, energy / mass.
Wriggling toward the idea that bosons (photons or any massless boson) are superposable and may be considered as basis states for a Hilbert space so they can be assembled in different ways, maybe to create fermions, so, eg, we can superpose photons of different frequency to make fermions like electrons (if the energy is there);
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ie electron and positron can annihilate into photons,
Feynman and Weinberg: Dirac Memorial Lectures 1996, Foreword John C Taylor:
The development if quantum mechanics began at the turn of the century but it was Dirac in 1925 and 1926 brought the subject to its definitive form, making a theory as compelling as Newton’s mechanics had been.Dirac immediately set about reconciling quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity (of 1905). The nature of the marriage between the two marvellous theories, and the fruits of that union, have been the constant preoccupation of fundamental physics from 1925 to the present. . . .
[Feynman’s] lecture here . . . expounds the physical reality underlying Dirac’s prediction of antimatter. Then Weinberg and the unity of EM and weak force. Feynman & Weinberg (1999): Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
page 2: Feynman:
At first Dirac thought that the spin or the intrinsic angular momentum that the equation demanded was the key and that spin was the fundamental consequence of relativistic quantum mechanics. However, the puzzle of negative energies that these equations presented, when it was solved, showed that the crucial idea to wed quantum mechanics and relativity was the existence of antiparticles.
Feynman’s discussion is carried on in Minkowski space extracting the nature of fermions and bosons from spacetime. We
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want to do the opposite, starting from fermions and bosons and working Feynman’s argument backwards. A revision of Feynman’s essay will need a whole article into which I can pack all my ideas about creation and this critique of QFT will make the essay relevant.
Weinberg; ‘Quantum mechanics appears to be inevitable, but it is not enough. Quantum mechanics is not itself a dynamical theory. It is an empty stage. You have to add actors: you have to specify the space of configurations, an infinite dimensional complex space and the dynamical rules for how the state vector rotates in [this space] space as time passes.’
Perhaps we follow Augustine and imagine that we have a sea of random complex vectors that sometimes discover hermitian superposition and create a stationary state that acquires energy, potential and kinetic, to become a person, fermion + boson, ie hermitian symmetry. Weinberg’s ultimate symmetry is the initial symmetry.
Speed of light makes field superfluous. Field is held to have dynamic degrees of freedom which are more appropriate to real particles.
Pais 249: ‘Bohr would relive the struggles which it took before the content of quantum mechanics was understood and accepted.’ We have similar struggles in moulding theology and physics into complementary shapes all built in Hilbert space with photonlike base states, ie waves, [harmonic oscillators].
Friday 27 March 2026
I have still to get my new teeth but removal of the old ones all paid for.
Gradually digging deeper into my installation of Hilbert space into the initial singularity and getting glimpses into the fog that suggest how to cure QFT which seems simply as an interim measure for those afraid to leave classical physics and face the full beauty of the evolutionary power of Quantum Mechanics (see Born, top of page 10). Its great virtue, from my point of view, is its union with theology through the analogy with Augustine’s Trinity which was first a guess and is now becoming a way of life.
Quantum mechanics is getting more like music, a superposition of harmonic oscillators arising from the formal / abstract quantum mechanical split of action into potential and kinetic energy interpreted as two directions of time in the equation E =hf,where f is the rate of oscillation of the harmonic oscillator.
In a computer we have a clock (an oscillator) connected to a memory which differentiates the oscillations to create a process in which the content of each individual cycle is different so the quanta of action are differentiated from identical operations to different logical operations occurring in a sequence encoded as a sentence (like all this), a program or a quantum state vector, the program of a particle which gives it its personality just as my program, as a particle (a large meaningfully rather than statistically connected language model) that writes long series of letters lie this page,
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A Hilbert space is an orchestra, a set of abstract harmonic oscillators, the most simple being a set of pure frequencies of normalized amplitudes. We complexify this by adding overtones to the individual oscillators making, in the orchestral case, sounds characteristic of different instruments, and we continue this analogy to generate a harmonic model of the universe.
Pais page 265: Wigner (1931): ‘It seems to me that the deliberate utilization of elementary symmetry properties is bound to correspond more closely to physical intuition than the more computational treatment.’
Saturday 28 March 2026
Keating’s vaudeville. Gen Z Genius: A Theory of Peace (1997-2012) Howard Manns (2016_06_06): The vaudeville, impact and substance of political name‑calling
On making the abstract concrete - ie Building. Sleep in to think about life. Do I need more self promotion? No, better work to perfect the product which is emerging slowly as I hope a ‘systematic integration of physics and theology’ whose abstract foundation is that the computing power of quantum mechanics is equivslent to the Aquinas / Hilbert characterization of action and mathematics — both can achieve anything that does not involve a contradicti0n. One conclusion: Revise the essay Theory of Peace to clarify this point and market under the headline above.
Every word counts. From Silent Generation to gneration A.
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I was one of the silent generation. My youngest child is a late millennial and I sympathize with the had times facing by my Z and A grandchildren. This essay is for them [circulate to age, Australian, Guardian, WP, Osservatore Romano, NYP, NYT, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, Politico, ABC SBS, SCMP, Telegraph, Atlantic, New Yorker, Patreon, the Tatler, . . .]
The key to intelligence is not juxtaposition but superposition. At some time in the distant past the hominids must have begun to realize that we are much smarter than the other creatures that we catch and kill for food. Some time in the last five to ten thousand years these ideas became clear enough to be ‘written’ in some way by various forms of art like making weapons, breeding plants and animals, drawing, sculpture and all the other arts, whose communication framework was our development of languages, with sufficient complexity in word and gesture to communicate our ideas to one another. One of our greatest ‘scientific’ discoveries was the invention of writing which required the translation of phonemes, fragments of sound, into symbols like these letters or patterns of impression with a sharp stylus on specially shaped pieces of clay.
When all this development came to the notice of philosophers like Plato they conceived the ideas of abstract forms, somewhat immaterial entities that capture the nature of physical objects without being all that physical themselves and the conceptual distinction between form and matter entered the human world, the distinction which I call the gnostic gap, between mental and physical entities, things in the mind and things in the world.
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This distinction became deeply embedded inhuman thought. We can guess that it is about 5000 years old and has got a lot to do with theology and philosophy. It is the ground of the belief exposed briefly by Aristotle and taken up whole heartedly by other authors, that our intelligence is the product of an immortal spiritual mind that must be specially created by the divinity, lies outside the power of material creation, and can never die. This is the fundamental theoretical foundation of organizations like the Roman Catholic Church. The Papacy stoutly defends this doctrine right up to the present day [totally rejecting the idea that human intelligence could have evolved like the intelligence of all the other animals]. Christopher Shields (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy b): The Active Mind of De Anima III 5, Pope John Paul II (22 October 1996): Address to Plenary Session on 'The Origins and Early Evolution of Life'
Since we started to build machines that can imitate some aspects of human thought, this doctrine has been opened to question and one of foundations of the modern technology of information and computation is that all information is physical, not spiritual. Or, at the minimum, all information, like this writing and the ideas floating around in my mind causing me to write these words is represented by a physical substrate, ink, electric charge, magnetic polarity or the chemical structures in my nervous system.
One question raised in this so4t of discussion is whether mathematics is in effect an eternal truth which has always been present in the world, waiting to be discovered, or is it something we have created for ourselvesd out of the thousands of years that readable mathematical texts have been in existence. This question is
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very relevant to the creation of the world. The old idea attributed to philosophers like Plato and Aquinas is that mathematics is eternal. For Plato it has always existed in the heavenly ideas. for Aquinas it has always existed in the eternal mind of god.
So on to the initial singularity, Augustine and Hilbert space, superposition and quantum mechanics the hermitian extinction of complex spaces leading to the formation of real particles, etc. What we are saying in effect is that spirit is always embedded in matter and that from the beginning of the universe and forever after complex Hilbert space is the spiritual foundation of the universe embedded in the real initial eternal initial singularity / symmetry.
